The Mons Orchestra is a spin-off of Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, the famous musical ensemble born in 1962 from Pierre-Bartholomée and now orchestrated by Jean-Paul Dessy, artistic director.

It won’t be the first time that the Botanique opens its doors to the orchestra. As a matter of facts, the Mons Orchestra has already worked many times with the Belgian festival and its performances always get more anticipated, by the public as well as by the professionals, because the string ensemble doesn’t offer your typical kind of show: each time it performs along with a contemporary pop/rock artist, and without distorting its music, it adds a universal and classical feel to it. Amongst the bands or artists that it previously played with are Archive, Keren Ann, Perry Blake, Louis Chedid, The Divine Comedy and a lot more. This year, for Un-Pop Classik, it will accompany Venus, the Belgian rock sensation.

According to Paul-Henri Wauters, the festival’s artistic director, “it’s not about replacing the synthesizers by strings, but bringing a vibrating and noble material that will amplify the singer and band’s emotions.”